[Bug 1050475] Re: fwts: segfaults on --disassemble-aml with some ACPI tables.

2012-09-13 Thread Colin King
Patch merged into fwts and sent to the mailing list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1050475 Title: fwts: segfaults on --disassemble-aml with some ACPI tables. To manage notifications

[Bug 1032178] Re: ubiquity: scroll bars on installer display even though there is plenty of free space on the display

2012-09-13 Thread Colin King
Also getting this on the OEM "System Configuration display", see attached photo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032178 Title: ubiquity: scroll bars on installer display even though t

[Bug 1032178] Re: ubiquity: scroll bars on installer display even though there is plenty of free space on the display

2012-09-13 Thread Colin King
Apologies, forgot to attach the photo. ** Attachment added: "Photo of the issue" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1032178/+attachment/3312652/+files/lp-1032178.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1050515] [NEW] Brightness settings, turn screen off when inactive set to never still blanks the screen

2012-09-13 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: This is a regression on 12.10 beta1 + daily updates. Tested on a Lenovo X220i and a Dell Inspiron 6400. In the "Brightness and Lock" settings, I un-tick the "Dim screen to save power" option and set the "Turn screen off when inactive for: " to "Never" to turn off screen di

[Bug 1047261] Re: ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page (regression)

2012-09-14 Thread Colin King
I've given this a good soak testing on Quantal, Precise + applied the patches to Oneiric and for each tested it against ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs lower file systems, and it does solve this bug. Thanks Tyler. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1050475] Re: fwts: segfaults on --disassemble-aml with some ACPI tables.

2012-09-14 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1050475 Title: fwts: segfaults on --disassemble-aml with some ACPI tables. To

[Bug 561129] Re: Existing eCryptfs inodes are not evicted when they're the target of a rename()/mv

2012-09-14 Thread Colin King
I've given this a good soak testing on Quantal, Precise + applied the patches to Oneiric and for each tested it against ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs and btrfs lower file systems, and it does solve this bug. Thanks Tyler. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 1047261] Re: ecryptfs_encrypt_page: Error attempting to write lower page (regression)

2012-09-15 Thread Colin King
SRU for Oneiric and Precise, and apply to Quantal too. == SRU Justification == == Impact == A regression was caused by commit: 821f749 eCryptfs: Revert to a writethrough cache model That patch reverted some code (specifically, 32001d6f) that was necessary to properly handle open() -> mmap() ->

[Bug 561129] Re: Existing eCryptfs inodes are not evicted when they're the target of a rename()/mv

2012-09-15 Thread Colin King
SRU for Oneiric and Precise, and apply to Quantal too. == SRU Justification == == Impact == This bug is the result of existing eCryptfs inodes not being evicted when they are the target of a rename() syscall. The existing inodes are left around, meaning that the lower inodes are also left around

[Bug 1007159] Re: ecryptfs test on btrfs failing on "no space left on device"

2012-06-12 Thread Colin King
Marking it invalid against linux since it wasn't a kernel bug - it was a bug in my eCryptfs test script for btrfs specific tests. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed t

[Bug 926292] Re: automake distdir.test fails because of an EPERM error

2012-06-12 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926292 Title: automake distdir.test fails because of an EPERM error To

[Bug 947270] Re: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable

2012-06-12 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/947270 Title: eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable To manage notifications

[Bug 1017388] [NEW] fwts: method test reports mutex lock failures in a seemingly non-deterministic way with some firmware

2012-06-25 Thread Colin King
evaluating the method. ..but for some reason it seems to happen non-deterministically. Probably a race somewhere. Needs fixing. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New =>

[Bug 1016469] Re: fwts: acpidump should not check CMOS settings on BOOT table when tables are loaded from file

2012-06-25 Thread Colin King
Fix committed: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=hwe/fwts.git;a=commit;h=7ec7c2589e53b91d5bda68f806ca15dab6ad9995 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=hwe/fwts.git;a=commit;h=002ea32da4b03ce9b5683765311ba033bb9803af This fix will be released soon in fwts V0.25.04 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Statu

[Bug 1017841] Re: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
Please can run apport-collect on this bug? Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017841 Title: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu To man

[Bug 1017841] Re: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
Is this a regression or something we missed when it was enabled? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017841 Title: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on anoth

[Bug 1017841] Re: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
Incidentally, why has this machine got init_call debug enabled on boot? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017841 Title: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on

[Bug 1017841] Re: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
@Brendand, comment #6 you said this is the first time you are running this test? Are you referring to the s3 test or s3 with the --s3-device- check option? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 1017841] Re: [Thinkpad Edge 15] register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
So, the meta question is as follows: Now that one is using fwts to do s3 testing we are actually being more rigorous and finding more issues. These may not be s3 failures per se, but they are issues found when doing S3 testing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 971886] Re: QA: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

2012-06-26 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: fwts Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971886 Title: QA: warning: dere

[Bug 1018288] [NEW] fwts: s3 device check fails because the device order sometimes changes after resume

2012-06-27 Thread Colin King
differences in device as one can see, the Dell WMI hotkeys and AT Translated Set 2 keyboard are swapped causing the check to fail. We should probably sort these and the compare the sorted order. ** Affects: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Colin King (colin-king

[Bug 1018288] Re: fwts: s3 device check fails because the device order sometimes changes after resume

2012-06-27 Thread Colin King
We also need to filter out the pactl Latency information as this is a new field that we don't want to compare because it is always changing. ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 1017388] Re: fwts: method test reports mutex lock failures in a seemingly non-deterministic way with some firmware

2012-07-19 Thread Colin King
..and also because Notify() calls are being spawned off and we're not waiting for these pthreads to complete before we do the lock accounting. Patches to address this are pending on the mailing list too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 1025663] Re: DMIStringIndexOutOfRange on HP Proliant ML110 G5

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
I've updated the dmi decode test with some improved advice information to help explain these kind of errors, http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=hwe/fwts.git;a=commit;h=fe3ba4850c78281bf5f720b5d361e6506f69f17b -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1017388] Re: fwts: method test reports mutex lock failures in a seemingly non-deterministic way with some firmware

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
Fixed with commit: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=hwe/fwts.git;a=commit;h=db44f7ee5f01827ce8275ecde9c4e3d5123e5660 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 1021674] Re: DMIInvalidHardwareEntry - Unmatched Chassis Type

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021674 Title: DMIInvalidHardwareEntry - Unmatched Chassis Type To manage notification

[Bug 1028031] Re: fwts crashed with SIGSEGV in fwts_klog_scan()

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1028031] Re: fwts crashed with SIGSEGV in fwts_klog_scan()

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
Bug caused in regex scanning. I have a fixed version available for testing on your i386 machine: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/lp-1028031/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1028031 Titl

[Bug 1028031] Re: fwts crashed with SIGSEGV in fwts_klog_scan()

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
Patch sent to fwts-devel, fix should land in version 0.25.06 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1028031 Title: fwts crashed with SIGSEGV in fwts_klog_scan() To manage notifications about

[Bug 1028111] Re: kernel SRU: ecryptfs tests fail on Lucid

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1028112] Re: kernel SRU: ecryptfs tests fail on Natty

2012-07-23 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1028178] Re: kernel SRU: while running ecryptfs test, got hit by kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.32/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c:248!

2012-07-24 Thread Colin King
So, the inode-race-stat.sh test will fail on Lucid and Natty as backporting commit 3b06b3ebf44170c90c893c6c80916db6e922b9f2 was deemed too intrusive to backport and had a high risk in causing further regressions. We can either put it back on my list of patches to backport and thoroughly test, or d

[Bug 1028178] Re: kernel SRU: while running ecryptfs test, got hit by kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.32/fs/ecryptfs/read_write.c:248!

2012-07-24 Thread Colin King
As for the directory-concurrent test failing, it may be due to the host machine having too many CPUs. How many processors does the test host machine have? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 1028112] Re: kernel SRU: ecryptfs tests fail on Natty

2012-07-24 Thread Colin King
The inode-race-stat.sh test will fail on Lucid and Natty as backporting commit 3b06b3ebf44170c90c893c6c80916db6e922b9f2 was deemed too intrusive to backport and had a high risk in causing further regressions. We can either put it back on my list of patches to backport and thoroughly test, or drop

[Bug 1028111] Re: kernel SRU: ecryptfs tests fail on Lucid

2012-07-24 Thread Colin King
The inode-race-stat.sh test will fail on Lucid and Natty as backporting commit 3b06b3ebf44170c90c893c6c80916db6e922b9f2 was deemed too intrusive to backport and had a high risk in causing further regressions. We can either put it back on my list of patches to backport and thoroughly test, or drop

[Bug 1018288] Re: fwts: s3 device check fails because the device order sometimes changes after resume

2012-07-12 Thread Colin King
Fix landed as commit, a1dc6acab1c09788d997baa58660e7f51851a3e0. will be released in V0.25.05 ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1018288] Re: fwts: s3 device check fails because the device order sometimes changes after resume

2012-07-16 Thread Colin King
Released in https://launchpad.net/~firmware-testing-team/+archive/ppa- fwts-devel ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1017388] Re: fwts: method test reports mutex lock failures in a seemingly non-deterministic way with some firmware

2012-07-16 Thread Colin King
Bug occurs because of non-serialized control methods incrementing and decrementing the semaphore counts and not being protected by a mutex. Patch sent to the mailing list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.la

[Bug 1025663] Re: DMIStringIndexOutOfRange on HP Proliant ML110 G5

2012-07-17 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1025663] Re: DMIStringIndexOutOfRange on HP Proliant ML110 G5

2012-07-17 Thread Colin King
We encountered this error when running certification tests in a HP Proliant ML110 G5: FAILED [HIGH] DMIStringIndexOutOfRange: Test 1, Out of range string index 0x09 while accessing entry 'Base Board Information (Type 2)' @ 0x000dc082, field 'Asset Tag', offset 0x08 So, basically this means that

[Bug 1025663] Re: DMIStringIndexOutOfRange on HP Proliant ML110 G5

2012-07-17 Thread Colin King
A newer 2010.10.25 BIOS is available: http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=3577708&swItem =MTX- 8a03a95409d541848a5622a22d&prodNameId=3577715&swEnvOID=4006&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=2 However, the bug isn't exact

[Bug 1021230] [NEW] installation failed on daily iso AMD 64 desktop

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Testing today's daily ISO image http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily- live/20120704/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso on a Dell Inspiron 6400, failed to install - got a ubiquity install error message. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: ubiquity 2.11.8 ProcVersionSignatu

[Bug 1021230] Re: installation failed on daily iso AMD 64 desktop

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021230 Title: installation failed on daily iso AMD 64 desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/u

[Bug 1021284] [NEW] panic on __queue_work+0x16/0x3a0, 3.5.0-3-generic on Lenovo X220i

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Booting on today's ISO test I got a kernel panic, How to reproduce: ISO image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120704/quantal- desktop-amd64.iso On ISO boot menu, select language and then hit F4 (modes) and selected "OEM install (for manufacturers)" and then "Instal

[Bug 1021284] Re: panic on __queue_work+0x16/0x3a0, 3.5.0-3-generic on Lenovo X220i

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "panic.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021284/+attachment/3214002/+files/panic.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021284 Title: panic on __queue_work+0x

[Bug 1021330] [NEW] ubiquity aborts with an error on daily ISO (20120705 quantal-desktop-amd64.iso)

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Tried out today's ISO image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily- live/20120705/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso and I can't install because ubiquity fails. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: ubiquity 2.11.8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-3.3-generic 3.5.0-rc5 Una

[Bug 1021330] Re: ubiquity aborts with an error on daily ISO (20120705 quantal-desktop-amd64.iso)

2012-07-05 Thread Colin King
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021330 Title: ubiquity aborts with an error on daily ISO (20120705 quantal-desktop- amd64.iso) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://

[Bug 1016436] Re: [Lenovo E325] DMIIllegalMappedAddrRange error when running FWTS

2012-06-22 Thread Colin King
fwts is flagging up a DMI table field that is not strictly conforming to the DMI specification, http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0134_2.7.1.pdf Section 7.21, page 93, offsect 10h, "Partition Row Postion" states: "Identifies the position of the referenced Memory Device i

[Bug 1016469] [NEW] fwts: acpidump should not check CMOS settings on BOOT table when tables are loaded from file

2012-06-22 Thread Colin King
Assignee: Colin King (colin-king) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin King (colin-king) -- You received

[Bug 1007159] Re: ecryptfs test on btrfs failing on "no space left on device"

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
I'm pretty sure this is just a bug in the eCryptfs tests that don't cater for meta data space used on btrfs and so we get caught out. I will see if I can fix the test. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1010001] [NEW] Corruption on background during OEM installation user configuration on HP Mini 210

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Following the instructions as per "Install (OEM setup) in Ubuntu Desktop amd64 for Quantal Alpha 1" ISO testing http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopOem test-case: "Case ID: uoi-003", I got screen corruption on an HP Mini-210 - see attached photo This disappeared wh

[Bug 1010001] Re: Corruption on background during OEM installation user configuration on HP Mini 210

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Photo of artifacts on the display" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010001/+attachment/3179195/+files/DSCF2136.JPG -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010001 Title

[Bug 1010001] Re: Corruption on background during OEM installation user configuration on HP Mini 210

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1010001/+attachment/3179201/+files/dmesg.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010001 Title: Corruption on ba

[Bug 1010001] Re: Corruption on background during OEM installation user configuration on HP Mini 210

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1010001/+attachment/3179200/+files/lspci-vvnn.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1010001 Title: Corrup

[Bug 1007159] Re: ecryptfs test on btrfs failing on "no space left on device"

2012-06-07 Thread Colin King
Just to clarify, this is not a btrfs or eCryptfs bug at all, but just a test failure because the tests could not correctly estimate the maximum file size on the lower btrfs mount, causing the tests to fail when the unexpectedly run out of space. Fix: lp:~colin-king/ecryptfs/lp-1007159 -- You

[Bug 900923] Re: pm-utils: readahead and journal-commit waste power

2011-12-06 Thread Colin King
Since the posting was on a private list, I'm putting a link into the results and spreadsheet data that covers the analysis: Results: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/pm-utils-results/results.txt Data: http://zinc.canonical.com/~cking/power-benchmarking/pm-utils-results/pm-test

[Bug 900930] [NEW] pm-utils: typo in set_sata_alpm()

2011-12-06 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: function set_sata_alpm prints "Setting SATA APLM on %s to %s...", in fact this should be "Setting SATA ALPM on %s to %s...". (APLM --> ALPM). set_sata_alpm() { # see kernel commit 6013efd8860bf15c1f86f365332642cfe557152f kv="$(uname -r)" [ "$kv" ] || exit $NA #f

[Bug 898564] Re: pm-utils: power.d/hal-cd-polling probably should be removed

2011-12-06 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) ** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => precise-alpha-2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 900923] Re: pm-utils: readahead and journal-commit waste power

2011-12-06 Thread Colin King
Hi Steve, I will re-rerun journal-commit on an idle system tomorrow and get back to you. Any ideas of scenarios that are typical and may generate typical I/O patterns? As for the 600 second setting, it is a little scary to see it set so high and cause potential data loss risk. But, that's kinda

[Bug 898564] Re: pm-utils: power.d/hal-cd-polling probably should be removed

2011-12-07 Thread Colin King
Steve, agreed, it's a minor overhead - I just wanted to ensure that the HAL left over cruft was being flagged up as redundant and causing some extra overhead. Just wanted to save a bunch more fork/exec calls (e.g. on boot and AC/battery actions) and a few more bytes of space on the disk. I jus

[Bug 900923] Re: pm-utils: readahead and journal-commit waste power

2011-12-07 Thread Colin King
Steve, I've re-instrumented the journal-commit tests this time using the following test methodology: Start banshee playing some classical music (mp3) Sleep 60 seconds Start firefox, open tab on a blog containing flash adverts Sleep 60 seconds Open 2nd tab on firefox on a blog with lots of images,

[Bug 900923] Re: pm-utils: readahead and journal-commit waste power

2011-12-07 Thread Colin King
Sorry, forgot the spreadsheet data ** Attachment added: "pm-utils-journal-commit-apps-test.ods" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/900923/+attachment/2623324/+files/pm-utils-journal-commit-apps-test.ods -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 900923] Re: pm-utils: readahead and journal-commit waste power

2011-12-07 Thread Colin King
@Steve, also attached are the results from pm-utils readahead tests run with the same testing scenarios as in #5 I suspect that readahead is marginally beneficial for systems with spinning media (within the margins of measurement error), and with SSDs (like my HP mini 10) it is definitely less pow

[Bug 853875] Re: fwts: battery test should sanity check _BTP via /proc/acpi/battery/*/alarm

2011-12-10 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: fwts (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853875 Title: fwts: battery test should sanity check _BTP via /proc/acpi/battery/*/alarm

[Bug 872325] Re: fwts: ASPM PCI-express incorrect BIOS setting detection

2011-12-10 Thread Colin King
** Summary changed: - fwts: ASPM PCI-express incorrect BIOS seeting detection + fwts: ASPM PCI-express incorrect BIOS setting detection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872325 Title: f

[Bug 906987] Re: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is started with the -R XRecord extension option

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906987 Title: syndaemon polls 5 times a second even though it is

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
strace shows: open("/var/lib/NetworkManager/timestamps", O_RDONLY) = 20 fstat(20, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1646, ...}) = 0 read(20, "\n[timestamps]\n3c32aa58-a2ed-44e7"..., 4096) = 1646 read(20, "", 4096) = 0 close(20) = 0 open("/var/lib/Net

[Bug 913856] [NEW] NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Network Manager is periocially creating dirty pages that are being written back to disk and causing uncessary drive wakeups. Using SystemTap I was able to observe the following dirty pages being created on the following files 0 7951 NetworkManager sd

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
The culprit is periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps() which is being called every 300 seconds because of: /* Update timestamps in active connections */ priv->timestamp_update_id = g_timeout_add_seconds (300, (GSourceFunc) periodic_update_active_connection_timestamps, manag

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913856 Title: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 913856] Re: NetworkManager periodically writes to the disk causing wakeups

2012-01-09 Thread Colin King
So, I only see a single timestamps file too, the timestamps.096F6V filename is probably a short lived temp filename. As for the configuration, it was a clean install and connected via wireless (and possibly ethernet). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 913886] Re: Power consumption regression (12.04)

2012-01-10 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 818830 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818830 Unfortunately the i915 RC6 patch was dropped with commit 371de6e4e0042adf4f9b54c414154f57414ddd37 because the RC6 fix still seems to make some systems freeze and as yet we've not got a reliable list of hardwar

[Bug 898298] Re: pm-utils: power.d/disable_wol won't work by default as it requires ethtool to work

2012-01-10 Thread Colin King
Well, if ethtool isn't going to consume lots of space then I'm happy for it to be seeded too.The moot point is that it doesn't appear to save much power (the measurements were close to the noise levels of the readings). So, it's one of those cases that either we seed it and it works as expecte

[Bug 446657] Re: Bluetooth's on/off status doesn't update from the SetProperty D-Bus method that bluetoothd sends

2012-01-11 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: bluez (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446657 Title: Bluetooth's on/off status doe

[Bug 900930] Re: pm-utils: typo in set_sata_alpm()

2012-01-11 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: pm-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Martin Pitt (pitti) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/900930 Title: pm-utils: typo

[Bug 915261] [NEW] avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: avahi-daemon on a network with many clients is doing poll() with a zero timeout and timing out immediately. This looks like a busy wait to me. poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN}, {fd=13

[Bug 915261] Re: avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Also affects: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915261 Title: avahi-daemon: polling with zero timeout To manage n

[Bug 915324] [NEW] thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: I upgraded from Oneiric to Precise and now thunderbird is consuming >50% of my CPU all the time. Attached is a strace of the busy process. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: thunderbird 10.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15+mouseh

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
** Attachment added: "Thunderbird strace log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324/+attachment/2669534/+files/thunderbird-trace.log ** Tags added: battery-power-consumption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, I think this may be a false bug report - after ~30 minutes of grinding away it is now settled down. I have no idea how to re-trigger this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91

Re: [Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
On 12/01/12 15:11, Chris Coulson wrote: > Is it a fairly fresh account, or new-ish profile? It could have been the > indexing > This is an existing account with *thousands* of messages. Perhaps moving to the new thunderbird from Oneiric to Precise forced a re-index. Colin -- You received this b

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-12 Thread Colin King
@Chris, that makes sense. Not a bug then. Thanks for looking at this for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU To manage notificatio

[Bug 915843] Re: ThinkPad X201: intermittently powers off instead of suspending when closing the lid

2012-01-13 Thread Colin King
Steve a few simple things to try: 1. Can this be reproduced with a previous kernel? 2. Can this be reproduced with power connected? 3. What kind of failure rate are you seeing? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 915324] Re: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU

2012-01-13 Thread Colin King
Yep. It's kinda invalid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/915324 Title: thunderbird is consuming too much CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/u

[Bug 917156] [NEW] desktopcouch-service is polling at ~9.9Hz

2012-01-16 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: Running Precise with all of today's updates I'm observing that the desktopcouch-service is polling at about 9.9Hz, running strace on the process shows: poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=17, events=POLLIN}], 4, 101) = 0 (Timeout)

[Bug 906924] Re: ubuntuone-syncdaemon is polling at 10Hz on a pipe read

2012-01-16 Thread Colin King
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571648 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571648 ** Also affects: ubuntuone-client Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ubuntu-power-consumption Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - ubuntuone-syncdaemon

[Bug 917253] Re: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk

2012-01-17 Thread Colin King
HI Vadim, thanks for picking this up so quickly. Attached is a gzip'd log as requested. ** Attachment added: "gzip'd indicator-weather.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/917253/+attachment/2678503/+files/indicator-weather.log.gz -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 917210] Re: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
Daniel, I'm able to measure wakeup events using a tool I wrote called eventstat in my PPA https://launchpad.net/~colin- king/+archive/powermanagement - alternatively use powertop. Colin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 917210] Re: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
@Daniel, incidentally, how does one set the default mouse polling interval to 500ms? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idl

[Bug 917253] Re: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk

2012-01-19 Thread Colin King
Great! Many thanks Vadim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917253 Title: indicator-weather applet is writing debug messages frequently to disk To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 906462] Re: ubuntuone sync daemon is writing IDLE messages to the log every 2 minutes

2012-01-26 Thread Colin King
The fact that users aren't complaining about the line being logged doesn't mean it's not unwanted - users just don't know about it. We do get users complaining a lot about power consumption issues, and things like logs periodically being updated will keep the disk from going into an idle state. S

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2012-01-27 Thread Colin King
@Matt, thanks for that data point. I will see if I can get any sense out of contacts we have in Lenovo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904261 Title: Lenovo U300s does not suspend To

[Bug 917210] Re: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system

2012-01-31 Thread Colin King
Thanks Daniel, great work! Any idea when this will land in Precise? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system To man

[Bug 917210] Re: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system

2012-01-31 Thread Colin King
Most excellent! Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917210 Title: compiz+unity3d generates > 50 wakeups a second on idle system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https

[Bug 904238] [NEW] bluetooth-applet: does not save on/off state over reboots

2011-12-14 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: When enabled Bluetooth can typically consume ~1 Watt of power. The Gnome bluetooth-applet always has this enabled on login from a clean boot. Turning off Bluetooth temporarily disables Bluetooth during the session and also if one logs off and logs back in again. However, it

[Bug 897298] Re: fwts should test chassis type

2011-12-14 Thread Colin King
Well, there are some different ways of approaching this. Either we physically state the machine is meant to be a specific machine type using a command line option or we try to infer it (e.g. has it got a battery, then 'probably' it's a mobile platform of some sort). Perhaps we should have a comma

[Bug 904835] Re: notify-osd keeps on writing to .cache/notify-osd.log and waking up my drive

2011-12-15 Thread Colin King
** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => precise-alpha-2 ** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904835 Ti

[Bug 904835] [NEW] notify-osd keeps on writing to .cache/notify-osd.log and waking up my drive

2011-12-15 Thread Colin King
Public bug reported: notify-osd append each notify message to a log in .cache/notify-osd.log. Looking at the code I suspect this is for debugging purposes only, however, I don't seem to have debug turned on and it is still appending data to the log. I have examined this under the current Oneiric

[Bug 904835] Re: notify-osd keeps on writing to .cache/notify-osd.log and waking up my drive

2011-12-15 Thread Colin King
** Description changed: notify-osd append each notify message to a log in .cache/notify-osd.log. Looking at the code I suspect this is for debugging purposes only, however, I don't seem to have debug turned on and it is still appending data to the log. I have examined this under the curr

[Bug 904261] Re: Lenovo U300s does not suspend

2011-12-16 Thread Colin King
So, this basically means that the S3 test script observed that the kernel wrote to the power management registers which then transitions the machine into the S3 state. The kernel doesn't do much more after this it is waiting for the machine to suspend. So a hang like this is quite curious. If S

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